Word: humphrey
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Both Budget Director Joseph Dodge and Treasury Secretary George Humphrey called press conferences to brief newsmen on the details. After tax reductions totaling almost $5 billion (as a result of rates already reduced and revisions proposed-see below), they estimated the Government's income for fiscal 1955 (beginning next July 1) at $62.7 billion. Sources of that income, in billions...
...between income and expenditures, Dodge and Humphrey found themselves with a deficit of $2.9 billion. (Without the January 1 tax cuts, the Ad ministration, with the same expenditures, could have figured on a $2 billion surplus for the next fiscal year.) Even with the $5 billion loss in tax revenue, the Government's "cash budget" - the money it actually takes in, balanced against the money it pays out - will show a surplus of $115 million. Chief reason: payments to the Government for social security, not counted in the main budget,, exceed expenditures by about $2 billion...
...Died. Humphrey Hume Wrong, 60, topflight Canadian diplomat, Under Secretary of State for External Affairs, and former (1946-53) Ambassador to the U.S.; after long illness; in Ottawa...
...since they are just as larcenous at heart as the swindlers who fleece them. Martin Kane has changed its leading man four times (William Gargan, Lloyd Nolan, Lee Tracy, Mark Stevens)-oftener than it has changed its plot. Two crime shows, China Smith and Du Mont's Colonel Humphrey Flack are played for laughs, while two others, Foreign Intrigue and Orient Express, gain some freshness of face and background by being filmed and largely cast in Europe...
Interview with Secretary of the Treasury George Humphrey...